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Barbara Adam, PhD, DScEcon, AcSS
Professor of Sociology, Cardiff University
Max Weber Professor (1999-2000), LMU Munich
Founding editor of Time & Society
ESRC Professorial Fellow (2003 - 2007)
Barbara Adam is a trans-disciplinary social theorist,
internationally renowned for the study of social
time. Her main research interests are time, the
environment and the production of the future;
wider research interests include globalisation,
science & technology, ICT and risk. Professor
Adam gives keynote addresses across Europe, North
and South America and Australia.
Her research projects and collaborations include:
Time Politics
Time & Ecology
Time & Transport
Food Time
Time & Risk
Her acclaimed writings encompass 5 monographs,
5 edited books and 100+ articles.
Most publications to date feature the future as
an issue of central, if not explicitly theorised,
concern.
Monographs
1990 |
Time and Social Theory, Cambridge:
Polity; Philadelphia: Temple UP
* Japanese translation, Hosei University Press,
Tokyo
** Philip Abrams Memorial Prize awarded by
the British Sociological Association for `Best
First Book’ |
1995 |
Timewatch:
The Social Analysis of Time, Cambridge: Polity
Press, Williston, VT: Blackwell
* German translation, Suhrkamp,
Frankfurt
* Italian translation,
Baldini Castoldi Dalai, Milano
** J T Fraser Prize awarded by the International
Society for the Study of Time for `A Book
of Excellence in Time Studies’
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1998 |
Timescapes
of Modernity. The Environment and Invisible
Hazards, London/New York: Routledge |
2004 |
Time,
Polity Key Concepts Series, Cambridge: Polity,
Malden, MA: Blackwell |
2007 |
Future Matters: Action, Knowledge, Ethics,
Leiden: Brill. |
Learn
more about Adam's work and publications
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Research Associate: Dr Chris Groves
Interests:
- the relationship between continental philosophy and social theory/sociology
- philosophical implications of the understanding of time, with particular emphasis on concepts of the future.
- political thought and environmental ethics
Chris's PhD research dealt with the consequences that the introduction of time as an explicit philosophical theme had for Enlightenment thought.
Chris is now working as a Research Associate at BRASS, on projects dealing with responsible technological innovation and the politics of uncertainty.
PhD Student: Bambo Soyinka
- ESRC-funded PhD Student
- Research investigates the relationship between documentary film and the politics of sustainability.
- Has previously worked as a film director, artist and web producer. Clients/sponsors have included Sussex Careers Service, the Northern Ireland Probation board, Brighton and Hove Council, the Arts Council of England and Channel Four.
- Specialises in using audio-visual and interactive arts to explore social themes such as race, environment, transport and rehabilitation.
- Bambo's film Nothing Serious (2001), produced in collaboration with the Black and Asian youth group Sahara, won the Phillip Lawrence Award for Outstanding Citizenship.
- Bambo Soyinka (PhD) was awarded her Futures Project Doctorate on Thursday 24th June 2010, for her thesis entitled Film Futures: Imagining the future through the "here and now" of documentary film
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Review Board
The project is supported by a transciplinary Review Board. The Review Board's unique composition brings practitioners and scholars from across the private, public and governmental sectors. We are honoured to have reflected in our board expertise from the arts, business and innovation, policy, city and regional planning, volunteerism, media studies, psychology and the social sciences.
The project is supported
by a transdisciplinary Review Board which includes
the following people:
Professor
Paul Atkinson
School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University
Professor Ruth Chadwick
School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University
Mr. Glenn
Davidson
ARTSTATION
Professor
Rick Delbridge
Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University
Fellow, Advanced Institute of Management Research
Professor Debbie
Epstein
School of Social Science, Cardiff University
Dr. Peter Gregory
Retired, Senior Civil Servant (National Assembly for Wales, Director of NHS in Wales)
Dr
Gabrielle Ivinson
Lecturer in Psychology, School of Social Sciences,
Cardiff
University
Dr
Adam Jaworski
Centre for Language and Communication Research,
Cardiff
University
Mr. Nicolas Tresilian
Founding Director, Spafax Television plc, WR Group Plc & Classic FM.
Professor
Valerie Walkerdine
School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University
Ms. Lindsey Williams
Director of Communications, WCVA
Joanne Duffy
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
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